Voting for Senior Superlatives is open and students are rushing to get their votes in as they choose their friends for most artistic, most gullible, most musical, most athletic and many more.
Voting is due Oct. 1 and is only open for seniors. It is available on a Google Form sent out by the school on Aug. 23. While the yearbook is coming out late April or early May and it’s still a ways away, it is still important for students to get their votes in early into the school year because of all the set up that goes into the yearbook itself.
“We have to submit pages and everything way in advance,” senior Tatler student Makenna Strowmatt said. “We have to sort through the votes and then we have to get picture times set up. It’s just a lot of planning.”
The senior students in graphic productions, who create The Tatler (yearbook), chose a list of categories to vote from. The administrators then reviewed the list, and approved the options.
“[Reviewing categories] is important just so that we don’t do anything that can offend anybody,” Strowmatt said. “Just for precautionary reasons, just so nothing inappropriate gets put in the yearbook.
Having Senior Superlatives is important for the yearbook because it allows students to express themselves and get recognition for their admirable qualities. Tatler students like senior Tyrone Hughes believe that having them is important to the student body in general.
“It represents whoever it is that is voting or that is getting voted for,” Hughes said. “Not only with confidence but say with ‘most artistic,’ if everyone voted for Marielle McCarvey, that could boost her confidence and make her want to go be a professional artist.”
There being so many options to vote for is a little overwhelming, but voting for friends makes it easier and more meaningful. Being voted for means a lot to some students like senior Ciera Hancock, an aspiring artist, who hopes to win.
“It would mean a lot to me,” Hancock said. “I really feel like it shows that people think about me whenever they think about art and that’s one of my biggest things. I want you to think about me when you think about art.”
On top of being a confidence booster, it is also an experience that overall makes people happy. Outside of actually voting, seeing who votes for who is like a game for Strowmatt as well.
“Everybody gets to vote on who to nominate and it’s just fun to see who wins,” Strowmatt said.
Senior Superlatives are a big part of the yearbook and especially the school’s social community.
